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History · 2009 · UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson · Marcus Davis vs Chris Lytle
From the tape · 17 Jan 2009

Marcus Davis vs Chris Lytle

UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson · Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Result

Marcus Davis beat Chris Lytle

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

MD
Red corner MarcusDavis“The Irish Hand Grenade”Team Irish · Bangor, Maine
VSOn the tape
CL
Blue corner ChrisLytle“Lights Out”Integrated Fighting Academy · Indianapolis, Indiana
Welterweight3 rounds17 Jan 2009
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Davis.
22-11
Record
31-18-5
35
Age
−1 yr34
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+413
+6%6/786% of wins
Finishes
4/580% of wins
Team Irish
Gym
Integrated Fighting Academy
Bangor, Maine
From
Indianapolis, Indiana
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Marcus Davis17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 29BODY53%9 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Lytle25 sig landed
HEAD32%8 of 40BODY20%5 of 6LEGS48%12 of 13
17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
25 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Marcus Davis18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 41BODY39%7 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Lytle26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 49BODY12%3 of 5LEGS35%9 of 11
18 of 51
Sig.
strikes
26 of 65
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:03
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 9Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marcus Davis24 sig landed
HEAD42%10 of 52BODY46%11 of 19LEGS12%3 of 4
Chris Lytle22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 61BODY27%6 of 8LEGS18%4 of 5
24 of 75
Sig.
strikes
22 of 74
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Official totals — Marcus Davis first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Tim Vannatta28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 4 scored, Marcus Davis first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Davis · 75%29-28 Davis · 25%

4 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Marcus Davis

1.60takedowns / 15 min
1.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
3.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.27 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
55%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.40 / 15m

Chris Lytle

0.70takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Marcus Davis↑ +7.8pp
open 51.0%close 58.8%
Chris Lytle↓ −7.8pp
open 49.0%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marcus Davis opened at 51.0% and closed at 58.8% (+7.8pp), with Chris Lytle moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Marcus Davis-120-15551.0%58.8%+7.8pp
Chris Lytle-11013549.0%41.2%−7.8pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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